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Cosmin Pop

Lead Test Engineer · QA Automation & SDET · ISTQB certified

General Description

Lead Test Engineer with 6+ years owning quality and test automation for greenfield, cloud-native platforms. Primary quality owner across multiple modules of a system that licenses 3M+ songs to film, AAA games, and global advertising, and sole QA owner of a greenfield ingestion tool handling 20,000-track deliveries.

Hands-on expertise in Playwright and TypeScript across UI and API layers, with a strong focus on API contract, schema, and security testing, CI/CD quality gates, and test strategy. Takes complex tools from zero to production single-handed, sets QA standards for wider teams, and mentors other engineers.

Electrical Characteristics

ParameterSpecification
Test automationPlaywright · Cypress · TypeScript · JavaScript · Node.js · Page Object Model · end-to-end / integration / regression / functional
API & securityREST API testing · contract testing · schema validation · basic security testing · Postman
CI/CD & cloudGitLab CI/CD · pipeline design and quality gates · AWS · AWS CodeDeploy · Docker · Dev Containers
Data & toolingSQL · PostgreSQL · Git · Jira
Practice & leadershipTest strategy and architecture · shift-left quality · accessibility testing (WCAG 2.1 AA) · Agile / Scrum · standards definition · mentoring

Revision History

REV 1.0–4.0: Sony Music Publishing · London, UK (hybrid / remote) · contract · most recent first

REV 4.0

Lead Test Engineer

Apr 2024 — present

Primary quality owner for several modules of SMP’s greenfield, cloud-native licensing platform (Node.js + AWS) powering Sync for 3M+ songs across film, AAA games, and global advertising — including the Super Bowl — alongside the Sales / Invoicing / CRM estate used across 40+ territories.

  • Design, build, and maintain Playwright UI and API automation frameworks in TypeScript across Sync, CRM, invoicing, and sales workflows
  • Define QA strategy, CI/CD quality gates, reporting, and deployment validation across business-critical platforms
  • Built API contract, schema, and basic security testing into the automated suite
  • QA lead on DocuSign and Ironclad contract-lifecycle proofs of concept, and on the Licensing Template Management system from Figma to production
  • Set the QA standards adopted across the wider testing team and mentor its engineers; technical escalation point for quality and release decisions
REV 3.0

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Apr 2022 — Apr 2024

Sole QA owner for a greenfield bulk audio and metadata ingestion platform, alongside continued QA on sonymusicpub.com and the Pitch sync platform.

  • Sole QA owner for a brand-new ingestion tool letting third-party agents, JV partners, and internal teams upload, validate, and submit deliveries of up to 20,000 tracks (audio, metadata, artwork, lyrics, and stems) in a single batch
  • Owned testing across its multi-stage validation pipeline: metadata field and cross-field checks against the catalogue, audio spec and filename validation, artwork resolution checks, track-to-asset cross-validation, and post-submission media processing
  • Delivered the tool to production across three related Sony Music platforms
  • Led the migration of the team’s suites from Cypress to Playwright + TypeScript
REV 2.0

QA Automation Engineer

Apr 2021 — Apr 2022

Took full ownership of test coverage for assigned areas and moved from manual testing into automation, working across the legacy PHP estate and the early Node.js services.

  • Built Cypress automation across Sync and CRM web flows — first automation framework shipped May 2021
  • QA across the Sony/ATV → Sony Music Publishing rebrand and the Bitbucket → GitLab migration with the move to AWS CodeDeploy
  • Sole QA owner of the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility overhaul of sonymusicpub.com, helping make it one of Sony’s most accessible sites
REV 1.0

Junior Test Engineer

Apr 2020 — Apr 2021

First role in software testing after completing testing courses; joined during the company-wide modernisation push and learned the codebase, the licensing domain, and QA from the ground up.

  • Manual test execution and defect triage across the web platform under Agile / Scrum
  • First hands-on exposure to test automation, Jira, and CI/CD
REV 0.x

Professional Interpreter

Jun 2014 — Apr 2020

Pre-silicon revision: self-employed in the language services industry before retraining and moving into software testing in 2020.

Qualification & Compliance

CertificationIssued
ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level — Agile Tester ExtensionFeb 2022
ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation LevelDec 2021

Ordering Information

Full datasheet (PDF, with phone number) available on request via pin 1.